Update: Rick Rayl has this post (“Eminent Domain Takes Center Stage in Republican Presidential Race“) at the California Eminent Domain Report.
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With one exception — a repost of our review of the docfilm You’ve Been Trumped (“If You Are Even Thinking Of Voting For Trump…“), we’ve gone out of our way to avoid getting sucked into the debate on which GOP presidential candidate has the worse record on the abuse of the eminent domain power.
Others have analyzed it better (see, e.g., “Trump Does Not Understand Eminent Domain Law” from Gideon Kanner; “Donald Trump’s lightweight defense of taking property for private development” by Ilya Somin, for example), and there is little that we can add to those expert takedowns.
But we couldn’t resist posting the video above, a Ted Cruz campaign ad attacking The Donald on eminent domain: “Take over my house, Mr. Trump!”
We aren’t sure whether this is a good thing or not. A sign that our practice area has finally broken out into the mainstream, or whether this means it has become just another tired campaign phrase that is utterly devoid of substance; in internet parlance, has “jumped the shark.”
We’ll stick with the former.